Lieut.-Colonel Mixers on the Jainas of Gujerat and Marwar. 861 
to have arisen in 826 of Vicrama. ‘This appears to be the same with the 
Vrimdnia or Brdhmdnia, otherwise Bréhmamitti Guchch’ha, some of whom 
are said to be residing at Pattan. 
18th. Ndgori Tapa. The date of the sect is said to be S. 1572, 
A.D. 1516. 
All these besnas have their S'ri Pijas. 
The principal tenets of the Tapus are, 1st. The preservation of life in all 
its forms ; 2d. The worship of the images of the Tir?hancaras ; 3d. The 
acknowledgment of, and belief in the forty-five Séras, or holy books. 
They are also enjoined Tapasya, or penance; Sila, or chastity; Bhaw, 
benevolence or liberality ; and Dédna, or charity: they acknowledge seven 
Cshétras, or objects of peculiar veneration and expiatory charity when at 
the point of death, wiz. the Sdd’hu and Sdd’hwi, Srdvaca and S‘révacé ; 
the repair of temples, consecration of images; and lastly, the preservation 
and copying of their scriptures. 
The Tapa Jatis are not allowed to move about the country from the 
Samvachéri, or the last day of the Pajusan to the 14th of Cédrtic-séd, in 
all, seventy days:* they keep the Pac’hi, or full moon, on the 14th day of 
the month, and the Samvachéri, or 8th, or last day of the Pajusan, on the 
fifth of Bhadarwasid. 
The Tapas are said to hold that a Sdéd’hu may converse with women, if 
he find it impracticable to remain without them. It is also said, their Jatis 
may eat flesh, if dressed and given to them by Hindis, and also drink 
wine: this, however, is denied by them. 
They will not allow their scriptures to be read by a S’ravaca, or a layman. 
The following are inserted as forming some of the chief peculiarities of 
opinion distinguishing the Tapas and S’wétambaras in general from the other 
sects of Jainas. 
1st. The Tapis and Swétdmbaras worship inferior dévatas, and even those 
of the Hindus as the Devi Cali, or Amba Bhavdni, &c. 
2d. They say that. in a religious quarrel it is lawful to kill all those who 
injure or oppose them. 
3d. TheTapd Srdévacas, menand women, assemble together in the A’pasara, 
or convent of the priests, on the night of the 15th of Gnan Panchmi Cartic- 
std, and remain employed in religious exercises the whole of the night. 
* This is called the end of the Chowmdsa, and is common to all Jainas. 
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